• Independent TD for Kerry
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Michael Healy-Rae speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Appointments Status, Hospital Waiting Lists, Carer's Allowance Applications, Health Services, Disability Allowance Applications

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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (27 Nov 2025)

“I love straight questions, and I like giving straight answers. Yes, absolutely, before Christmas, people will know exactly how much they will be able to receive per hectare to reconstitute so, again, there is no reason in the world anybody should not go ahead and carry out their works. The one thing I would advise people on the record of the Dáil is to please deal with registered...”

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (27 Nov 2025)

“I recognise the impact that Storms Darragh and Éowyn have had on the forestry sector throughout the country. This presents significant challenges for the forestry stakeholders. I also welcome the positive progress that has been made by the forestry sector on the mobilisation of windblown materials in forests. The volume of timber normally felled over a 2.5 year period was blown down...”

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Nov 2025)

“The Government’s ambitious afforestation target of 8,000 hectares per year is set out in the Climate Action Plan. To help achieve this target, the Forestry Programme 2023-2027 provides for a wide range of generous financial incentives and planting options which encouraging landowners to plant trees, including a range of grants for different forest types, and a premium paid to farmers...”

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• Has spoken in 31 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 486 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 4 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 14–15 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 115 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Michael Healy-Rae speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1175 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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